The religious conflict created political and economic divisions in Byzantine society.

One of the exhibition's goals is to alter certain perceptions of Byzantine society and women's roles in it.

Many of the Bulgarian elite were integrated into Byzantine society, being given military or civil positions within the Byzantine state.

Hermogenes, like many Greeks from the middle classes of Byzantine society, rather fancied himself as an amateur theologian.

Byzantine society was well educated by the standards of its time, with high levels of literacy compared to the rest of the world.

Byzantine society was patriarchical and left few records about them.

Strict seclusion and the veiling of matrons were in place in Roman and Byzantine society as well.

The war polarized Byzantine society along class lines, with the aristocracy backing Kantakouzenos and the lower and middle classes supporting the regency.

In this way he sought to absorb the Bulgarian elite into Byzantine society.

His general characterization of Byzantine society has also on occasion been revived, most notably by Romilly Jenkins.